The Croxley Master [in] The Strand Magazine, vol XVIII. [July to December, 1899.]
( Sidney PAGET, illus. ) ( Strand Magazine ) DOYLE], [Sir Arthur Conan
[With Illustrations by Sidney Paget.]
FIRST APPEARANCE OF THE CROXLEY MASTER
Published: George Newnes, 1899
Stock code: 41880
Price: £84.00
8vo., First Edition thus, with illustrations by Sidney Paget in the text; original publisher's binding of pictorial blue cloth, upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in gilt and black, red sprinkled edges, primrose endpapers, neatly recased, backstrip faded else a good, clean copy.
First appearance of Doyle's boxing tale, present here in the original three instalments with a total of sixteen illustrations (2 full-page) by Paget. The story was never published individually in book form in the UK, but was included in The Green Flag (1900), and published individually in the US and Canada in 1907 (Green & Gibson A31). SCARCE. Green & Gibson, pp.119, 145.